The Office of Admissions and Student Recruitment at UMDNJ New Jersey Dental School hosted a "Dental School Admissions Symposium" at the school’s Oral Health Pavilion Delta Dental Conference Center for high school and college students, advisors and parents.
They were invited to learn about dentistry as a career, the admissions and financial aid process, degree programs, and internship opportunities. Faculty and students were available to answer questions and provide information about their dental school experience.
To advance different approaches to designing a preventive HIV vaccine, Dr. Abraham Pinter, professor of microbiology and medical genetics at UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School, and head of the Laboratory of Retroviral Biology at the Public Health Research Institute, will share a five-year, $15.6 million grant from the NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Dr. Pinter is one of ten investigators nationwide who will share resources, methods and data as part of the five year program being launched by NIAID to strengthen, expand and accelerate the scientific foundation and progress of HIV vaccine research. The program aims to uncover mechanisms that will enable scientists to outwit HIV and stimulate the B cell production of long lasting antibodies that can neutralize many strains of the virus.
Katherine Katen Moore, MSN, APRN, AOCN, BC, a member of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s Continuity of Care Committee, is the recipient of the 2008 State Award for Excellence given by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The annual award recognizes a nurse practitioner who has demonstrated excellence in practice, research, education or community affairs. Moore has conducted research on such topics as the effects of nutrition on radiation treatment, complementary therapies in cancer treatment, palliative care, cancer fatigue and nursing education.
Decades after they were forbidden to advertise on television, the companies that brought Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man to the American public continue to spend billions to try to convince young people to smoke. Promotional products such as music CDs, sweepstakes, toys, and magazine advertising targeting women and minorities have been catalogued and stored in the “Trinkets and Trash” collecting at UMDNJ School of Public Health (SPH).
According to Dr. Jane Lewis, principal investigator of the “Trinkets and Trash” project and founding member of the Center for Tobacco Surveillance and Evaluation Research at SPH, the tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on advertising, promotion, and sponsorship. She says that young people are particularly vulnerable. Some “Trinkets and Trash” items are on display at the school’s Piscataway campus, and the entire collection, which includes thousands of items, is available online.
